Conference Proceedings

Apr 2, 2025

Applying History to Inform Anticipatory AI Governance: Using Foresight and Hindsight to Inform Policymaking

How do lessons from past technologically driven transformations inform today’s artificial intelligence governance challenges? These conference proceedings address this question with a novel combination of methods—backcasting and the use of history.

Robert J. Lempert, Jonathan W. Welburn, Laurence B. Mussio, Michael Aldous
Feb 20, 2025

Steps Toward AI Governance: Insights and Recommendations from the 2024 EqualAI Summit

EqualAI's 2024 artificial intelligence (AI) summit facilitated dialogue on AI development, acquisition, and integration. These conference proceedings describe key summit insights about best practices, metrics, and tools for evaluating AI systems.

Douglas Yeung, Tina Huang, Benjamin Boudreaux, Prateek Puri, Jonathan W. Welburn, Anita Chandra, Miriam Vogel
Jan 9, 2025

Scenarios for the Future of U.S.-Russia Strategic Stability and Arms Control: Results from a Track II Dialogue

This paper explores the possibilities for future arms control between the United States and Russia under different scenarios. The findings are based on a series of discussions involving nongovernmental experts from the two countries.

Samuel Charap, John J. Drennan, Julia Masterson
Dec 13, 2024

Military Spouse Employment in the Technology Sector: VetsinTech Roundtable Proceedings

In May 2023, VetsinTech hosted a policy roundtable to discuss the challenges that military spouses face when pursuing tech education, employment, and entrepreneurship and how the tech sector is uniquely positioned to mitigate these challenges.

Marwa AlFakhri, Lucy Shearer, Ikram Mansori
Dec 10, 2024

Policy Recommendations to Improve Transition Support for Those Leaving the Military: Proceedings from a Roundtable and Perspectives from Experts

The RAND Epstein Family Veterans Policy Research Institute hosted a roundtable discussion on future policy changes and research about the transition to becoming a veteran and its implications for a service member's life trajectory.

Whitney S. Livingston, Carrie M. Farmer, Heather M. Salazar, Rajeev Ramchand, Kayla M. Williams
Nov 7, 2024

A Conversation on Catastrophic Incentives: Why Approaches for Disasters Fall Short

Guest speakers Jeff Schlegelmilch and Ellen Carlin joined RAND's Disaster Management & Resilience Program for a discussion about their book, Catastrophic Incentives: Why Our Approaches to Disasters Keep Falling Short.

Jeff Schlegelmilch, Ellen Carlin, Jason Michel Etchegaray
Oct 4, 2024

Conference on Access to Justice in California: Challenges and Policy Innovations

At a day-long conference titled Access to Justice in California: Challenges and Policy Innovations held in Santa Monica, California, approximately 75 national and California leaders discussed approaches to reforming legal services regulation.

Lucy Ricca, Eric Helland
Sep 30, 2024

The U.S.–Japan Alliance: Realizing a Free and Open Indo-Pacific

These proceedings contain a summary of a conference that explored how the United States, Japan, and other countries assess the concept of a Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) and the evolution of FOIP.

Jeffrey W. Hornung, Mina Pollmann
Sep 26, 2024

Conference Proceedings on Asia-Pacific and Indian Military and Defense Consequences of the Russia-Ukraine War

These conference proceedings summarize the in-person Track II Dialogue that RAND and the Observer Research Foundation convened on January 12, 2024, and conclusions from it, as well as the full text of all six papers that were written for it.

Ryan Bauer, Kartik Bommakanti, Rafiq Dossani, Ankita Dutta, Derek Grossman, Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan, Melissa Shostak, Suchet Vir Singh, Nandan Unnikrishnan, Cortney Weinbaum, Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan
Sep 16, 2024

Evaluating Artificial Intelligence for National Security and Public Safety: Insights from Frontier Model Evaluation Science Day

Experts in artificial intelligence (AI), national security, and policy gathered to address the emerging challenges of evaluating threats from advanced AI systems. These proceedings capture insights and proposed actions from this gathering.

Anton Shenk
Aug 12, 2024

The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Realizing a Free and Open Indo-Pacific

This conference explored the perspectives of U.S. and Japanese specialists and representatives of other regional countries, and it contributed to the public's understanding of the key issues confronting Washington and Tokyo.

Ken Jimbo, Christopher B. Johnstone, Kristen Gunness, Emily Cloke, Francis Maynard S. Maleon, Zaib Shaikh, Kenko Sone, Howard J. Shatz, Shihoko Goto, Kunihiko Shinoda, Jeffrey W. Hornung
Aug 9, 2024

AI Security: Safeguarding Large Language Models and Why This Matters for the Future of Geopolitics

RAND gathered experts in artificial intelligence (AI) and global security for a moderated panel discussion on the increasingly important topic of securing AI and the implications for national and homeland security.

Richard Danzig, Barry Pavel, Michelle Woods, Joslyn Barnhart, Lisa Einstein, Tara Michels, Sella Nevo, Jim Mitre

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Applying History to Inform Anticipatory AI Governance: Using Foresight and Hindsight to Inform Policymaking

Steps Toward AI Governance: Insights and Recommendations from the 2024 EqualAI Summit

Scenarios for the Future of U.S.-Russia Strategic Stability and Arms Control: Results from a Track II Dialogue

Military Spouse Employment in the Technology Sector: VetsinTech Roundtable Proceedings

Policy Recommendations to Improve Transition Support for Those Leaving the Military: Proceedings from a Roundtable and Perspectives from Experts

A Conversation on Catastrophic Incentives: Why Approaches for Disasters Fall Short

Conference on Access to Justice in California: Challenges and Policy Innovations

The U.S.–Japan Alliance: Realizing a Free and Open Indo-Pacific

Conference Proceedings on Asia-Pacific and Indian Military and Defense Consequences of the Russia-Ukraine War

Evaluating Artificial Intelligence for National Security and Public Safety: Insights from Frontier Model Evaluation Science Day

The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Realizing a Free and Open Indo-Pacific

AI Security: Safeguarding Large Language Models and Why This Matters for the Future of Geopolitics

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Applying History to Inform Anticipatory AI Governance: Using Foresight and Hindsight to Inform Policymaking

Steps Toward AI Governance: Insights and Recommendations from the 2024 EqualAI Summit

Scenarios for the Future of U.S.-Russia Strategic Stability and Arms Control: Results from a Track II Dialogue

Military Spouse Employment in the Technology Sector: VetsinTech Roundtable Proceedings

Policy Recommendations to Improve Transition Support for Those Leaving the Military: Proceedings from a Roundtable and Perspectives from Experts

A Conversation on Catastrophic Incentives: Why Approaches for Disasters Fall Short

Conference on Access to Justice in California: Challenges and Policy Innovations

The U.S.–Japan Alliance: Realizing a Free and Open Indo-Pacific

Conference Proceedings on Asia-Pacific and Indian Military and Defense Consequences of the Russia-Ukraine War

Evaluating Artificial Intelligence for National Security and Public Safety: Insights from Frontier Model Evaluation Science Day

The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Realizing a Free and Open Indo-Pacific

AI Security: Safeguarding Large Language Models and Why This Matters for the Future of Geopolitics

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